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jacqui heinrich lab at the white house. what's on the campaign agenda today? >> well, john, the biden campaign seems to have noticed the trump campaign raking in the donations following that conviction, so they are leaning into the messaging, too. >> i have no doubt they raised a significant amount of money because his base we know is going to stick with him through thick and thin with her he's a convicted felon or not. this campaign did in fact have one of the best stretches of fund-raising since the campaign launched. >> there's at least one democrat he thinks that the wrong approa...

Specifically the same two criminal statutes, two of the three that jack smith has used to charge. the case has only got stronger since then special counsel have some tools that we didn't have. he can immediately push through privilege assertions and get a judge to rule on them, he has used that to get vice president pence, some additional testimony from him and others, so the case has got stronger since we concluded our work, and we had already concluded there was evidence of criminal conduct. t concluded there was evidence of criminal conduct.— criminal conduct. i want to talk about _ crimi...

The evidence that the select committee dwochlts he has the ability to get immediate rulings on privilege assertions from the chief judge of the d.c. district court. we didn't have that ability. he has the leverage of the looming possibility of criminal charges that he may be using to negotiate plea agreements or cooperation agreements with people. he has a lot more tools at his disposal that are just not available in a congressional oversight process. my expectation is that he's taken sort of the foundation that the select committee laid in our investigation and has likely gone beyond it and d...

The room where it happens. again, we've got enough just based on what we were able to find with those witnesses tiptoeing up to the line to believe there had been a violation of federal crimes. judge clark in california even back in the spring of 2022 also found that there was prima facie evidence that trump and eastman conspired to violate criminal statutes. now jack smith, with his grand jury power that comes with the adjudication of privilege assertions, my expectation is that he has a lot more, that the case has only gotten stronger, there's more en culp tory evidence, he's gotten to that ...

And then the court of appeals only will consider that on an emergency motion for stay. and evaluate whether there's a likelihood of success on the merits with the district court's ruling. that happens very quickly. the special counsel's availing himself, wisely, of those tools. and getting stuff that was not accessible to us. we found, as the select committee will report reflects, sufficient evidence that there were violations of federal criminal law. i can only imagine that special counsel was developing additional corroborated evidence, by pushing through these privilege assertions, and gett...